My del.icio.us links: 19th January to 3rd February
- The Chess Master and the Computer – Kasparov: "The chess machine Hydra, which is a chess-specific supercomputer like Deep Blue, was no match for a strong human player using a relatively weak laptop. Human strategic guidance combined with the tactical acuity of a computer was overwhelming."
- SteamPunk Magazine – Before the age of homogenization and micro-machinery, before the tyrannous efficiency of internal combustion and the domestication of electricity, lived beautiful, monstrous machines that lived and breathed and exploded unexpectedly at inconvenient moments.
- Designing A Generation Ship – So. You, and a quarter of a million other folks, have embarked on a 1000-year voyage aboard a hollowed-out asteroid. What sort of governance and society do you think would be most comfortable, not to mention likely to survive the trip without civil war, famine, and reigns of terror?
- The Encyclopedia Of Decency: The White House Tapes – Comedy dramatisation – way, way better than fisking.
- Sherlock Holmes end credit sequence – I love this aesthetic. Slightly depressed I don't have the graphic/artistic skills to do it properly on my own design.
- Auto-appendectomy in the Antarctic – Bloody hell: A Russian surgeon operated on himself in the Antarctic in 1960.
- First-Person Tetris – There are deep philosophical implications, here.
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